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A TROTTING HORSE NAMED ‘YALLOURN’ Over the past few years, serious efforts have been made to unearth the background information surrounding a trotting horse named ‘Yallourn.’

Newspaper articles indicate that Yallourn raced between 1948 and 1953. Following substantial research and with the kind help of various people associated with Harness Racing Australia, the following facts regarding the pacer, named Yallourn, have been established:-

Source: Item MM10230- From the ‘Museum Victoria’ collections. https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/763854

This photo is part of a large photographic collection of glass plate and film negatives, photographic prints and photo albums, relating to the development of the electric power supply industry in Victoria, operated by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV) from 1919 to 1993 and various predecessors private and municipal power supply enterprises dating back to the late 1880s.

Ken Tate in the lounge at 61 Church Street - approx 1959

Yallourn FC 1936 Premiers & Champions Dan Hutton, B. Green, G. Beston, B. Crawford, T. Knight, L. Kiernan, G. Mahoney, E. Franklin, K. Williamson, G. Slatter, T. McKay, Jack Piggott, Ernie Davies, J. Egan, H. Smith, B. Godfrey, B. Marshall, J. Fincher, S. Attenborough

Gary Tate, Cheryl Borrill (Cousin) and Hazel Anderson (friend) aprox 1975

A LUCKY ESCAPE - this news report was found in the ‘Barrier Miner,’ a newspaper which was published in Broken Hill from 1888-1954.

The article centres about the rescue of two workers at Yallourn in 1939. The workers named in the newspaper report were Les Kennedy and Syd Abbot. Both men had been pinned, for more than one hour, by an inadvertent coal fall from a bunker at the power station.

The details of the frantic efforts by fellow workers to rescue Les and Syd would have been of great interest to miners in Broken Hill who faced similar dangers each day in their work.

Yallourn 'B' power station boiler house firing floor, circa 1938. Source: Museum Victoria. Reg: MM 0106176

Circa 1928 - a 1500 ton coal bunker under construction at Yallourn A Station Source: State Library of Victoria H200918/457

Back Row: ? , ? , John Swankhuisen, ? , ? , Graham Thomson 2nd Back Row: Helen Miltiadious, Merril Setches, Gayle Fleming, ? , ? , Bronwyn Peters, Susan Wakefield? 2nd Row: ? , ? , Gary Vogel, Leigh Adams, Martin Heddles, ? , John Spencer, Bruce ? Front Row: Carol Dinsdale, Julie Francis, Lexine Baillie, Ann Castell, Rosalind Miller, Linda German, Gail Harrison, Kaye Young, Connie Berg

Back Row: Faye Stewart, Ketty Kelava, Christine Canovan, Sue Harwood, Gail Pittaway, Carol Dinsdale, Alison Webb 2nd Back Row: Christina Wells, Gillian Brimacombe, Robyn Parry, Jan Sheeky, Sandra ?, Jackie Eves, Colleen ?, ? , Jackie Wootten 2nd Row: Mary Ciecorski, ? , Janet Williams, Jenny Davis, Mr Phillips (Teacher), Linda Ferguson, Dianne Casey, Anita Plavins, Linda German Front Row: Olga Djorjevic, Karen Brown, Noelene Heskey, Kay Benson, Julie Francis, Bronwyn Peters, Jenny Young, Janice Metcalfe, Ann Castell

1958 LVCH Trainee Nurses:

Back Row: Horry Alympic, Pam Taylor, Barbara Park, Marian McIntosh, Marlene Singer, Marlies Kosmer, Frances Hallinan, Irene Park, Margaret Skinner, Kathy Williams, Tilly Crouch, Lorraine Rooney, Mary Coutts (Smith), Deana Burnett, Alan Ganley

Front Row: Elsie Bellman, Jan Wicks, Margaret Heath, Dora Knibb, Matron Baker, Ann O’Brien, Ann Macklin, Elsie Patterson, Ann Oswald

Photo from Irene Hunnam (Park) Names from Marg Cook

1929 - OPENING DAY - YALLOURN HOSPITAL

Source: State Library of Victoria Ref: H2009 18/256

YALLOURN AUXILIARY RVIB - ELECTION OF OFFICE BEARERS The following newspaper article was published in the ‘Morwell Advertiser’ on August 23rd in 1934; and reports on the AGM of the Yallourn Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind. The listed names of the collectors for Yallourn Auxiliary of the RVIB, again highlight the degree of involvement of local people in the various organizations and clubs of the town.

Back Row: Allan Crilly (YHS), Barry Johnston (NHS), Graham McHenry (YHS Front Row: Ian Hill (YHS Timekeeper)

1947 or 1948 YHS Hockey Team (Teachers?):

Back Row: xxx Price, Ian Wynd, Frank Farrelly, Dick Silcock, Lindsay Young Front Row: ? , Marion Dawson, ? , xxx Haugh, Norm Stewart

(Photo provided by Dorothy Edwards)

Memories: 69 Railway Ave was next to the Railway Station so memories of playing on the station, collecting briquettes off the track. Monty Snr was the Stationmaster at Yallourn.

PMWU - Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union This cookbook was shared with readers of Virtual Yallourn by Sue VanDijk (Wallace)

TO READ THE LUSCIOUS FAVOURITE RECIPES, CLICK THE TITLE LINK ABOVE THE FRONT COVER, THEN ON THE PDF DOCUMENT BELOW THE FRONT COVER

SEE ATTACHED FULL STORY - click on title above and then on pdf document below the photos

For complete story, click on pdf document above....